Meanings of embayment in English

Into an embayment between two of the out-stretching spurs Barbato conducts them.

Now it was a protected embayment, high above the river.

Aided by the falling sea level, this sediment filled in the embayment and made land.

The river split out again into several channels across a lowland basin that formed an embayment.

He had since learned there was a longer, easier, if less spectacular ascent to the high embayment.

Gilhaelith was working in an embayment down the tunnel, well out of the way of the diggings.

They camped within the low embayment.

Then, smiling at everyone, she signaled Wolf, nodded to Darvalo, and headed for the edge of the embayment.

The Gulf of Mexico again covered the Mississippi embayment, reaching as far north as southern Illinois, and extended over Texas.

Those not returning by water hurried back up the trail, hoping to reach the high embayment before the young couple did.

In escaping under cover of the cloud they had gone too far, ridden direct into a deep embayment of the cliff!

Before they reached the ancient embayment, the colors shifted through the spectrum of golds and bronzes, then reds to a deep mauve.

They had known of its existence before; and more than once had visited the little embayment in the lake, where it chiefly grew.

Further down, Colm ducked into an embayment where a flood had undercut the bank, leaving a hollow the size of a small barrel.

It was, in fact, a sort of natural breakwater, forming one side of a large cone, or embayment, lying between it and the true beach.

The Rancocus River forms here a broad embayment, the damming of which was easily accomplished, and one of the best of water-privileges was thus obtained.